AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 2 November 1948, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

At the Opera House Now Showing: “Home in Indiana,” (in dazzling technicolour), starring Waiter Brennan, Jeanne Crain. “HOME IN INDIANA.” “All the thrills of Kentucky,” ‘all the magnificence of Maryland,” “a simply wonderful picture,” such is the essence of 20th. Century-Fox s technicolor hit "Home In Indiana, now showing at the Opera House, featuring Walter Brennan, Lon McAllister, Jeanne Crain, June Haver and Charlotte Greenwood.. “Home in Indiana” tells its beautiful and exciting story of spirited youth, lovely women, fast horses and proud men, against the brilliantly colourful background of county fairs and the great “apple pie” country. In the film Walter Brennan gives what is easily his most outstanding character portrayal to date. His role—that of “Thunder” Bolt, the proud horse trainer, whose shattered dreams are revived by a young and impetuous boy and a "secret” filly—is tailor-made to the three-time Academy Award winner who plays it with deep understanding and warmth. In other important roles, three comparative newcomers to the screen provide one of the most refreshing treats of the year. Lon McCallister whose performance as “California” in “Stage Door Canteen" marked him as a truly exciting discovery, firmly establishes his right to stardom with his winning portrayal of Sparke, the boy who has so much to learn about women and horses. Jeanne Crain is utterly enchanting as the girl whose problem is to get Sparke to consider her as more than a mere "pal,” while June Haver does a wonderful job in completing the triangle.

Regent Shows .Now Showing: "Secret Beyond the Door," starring Mlichael Redgrave, Joan Bennett. In "Secret Beyond The Door’’ .loan Bennett and Michael Redgrave play wife and husband in a cat-and-mouse story of mounting suspense in which the woman steadfastly clings to her man even though his sudden and unpredictable outbreaks of schizophrenic fury put her life in recurring I'eopardy. Miss Bennett is cast as a social butterfly whose gaudy wings are '•epresented bv some 25 changes of wardrobe. Redgrave appears as a moody and eccentric archetectural -ditor whose hobby is the collection ' f rooms in which murders have been committed and their addition ! o 'his ancestral manor, where death broods in every nook. He has seven such rooms vv'th' the seventh containing a tense and exciting climax m the film.